Wild isn’t it
Edit:
Ok I misread the data but I am leaving this post. I compared Linux desktop share to Firefox all platform share
Statcounter does not say that.
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Firefox (all platforms): 2.74%
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Linux (all platforms): 1.61%
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Firefox (desktop): 6.64%
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Linux (desktop): 4.45%
Firefox has 50-70% more users than Linux.
Is OP adding the Android share to Linux? That would certainly do it.
- Android (all platforms): 45.19%
Only makes sense if you know their definition of ‘Linux’ though.
True, that could be it.
Although then the “Wild isn’t it” statement really isn’t wild at all - Android is by far and away the most popular OS, not far off double Windows. Of course if you lump that in with Linux, Linux would be more popular than Firefox.
4.45 > 2.74
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Browsers are mostly identified by user-agent, or not? If so it isn’t surprising because people like to fake that. In the least to shut down such silly messages like “please use chrome/edge”
The number of people that do this is not going to even remotely shift the usage share percentage.
OS is also identified by user agent, so it’s no less vulnerable to fake agents. In any case, I’d wager the vast majority of users even on Linux use unaltered agents, though this isn’t something that can be backed up one way or another because there are no numbers for fake agents.
If more than 0.1% of people do that I’d be flabbergasted
Right now statcounter shows:
Firefox: 2.74% Linux: 1.61%
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I never trust stat counters of any kind with linux. I often see stuff like that plastered on my whitelist firewall, like bumper insects on a high speed summer drive through Florida. There is usually some other stat of leet users. That’s Linux too. Then there are those times when I change my browser agent just for fun.
In which country? For me the global stats and my country’s (NL) stats show otherwise.
From a very quick glance at Statcounter, I can only see India where OP’s statement is true, with Linux having an extremely high desktop market share there relative to other markets.
I’d believe it. I’ve had hundreds of Linux servers that don’t have any desktop Gui at all deployed on them.
Linux desktop users make up an absolutely tiny fraction of Linux installs.
I know the Linux community doesn’t want to know, but Firefox is not as belowed as you might think.
But the majority of distros provides it as a default choice. FF for Linux is like Edge for Windows.
So just to install chrome?
Ew
To browse the web
I know, because most people are lazy, ignorant and stupid. :)
Or they just have differente priorities and preferences, you know. THe same reason they use Linux instead of $SOMEOTHEROS.
